The Mental Elf

• What's the relationship between money and mental health?
• What impact can we have with cash transfers or universal basic income?

In this 24-minute panel discussion, Prof Johannes Haushofer, Prof Matthew Johnson and Laura Peters from Rethink explore the links between money and mental health; specifically how interventions like cash transfers or universal basic income can help prevent or treat anxiety or depression.

00:50 Introductions

01:35 What's the relationship between money and mental health?

06:11 What financial challenges are young people facing?

07:53 Can economic interventions like cash transfers help?

12:51 What impact could we see from universal basic income?

19:40 How can we protect mental health with social security systems?

22:29 What would you like to see in future research?

Find out more about Wellcome Mental Health:

https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/mental-health

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• How can emotional regulation help with youth anxiety and depression?
• How can we teach emotion skills to young people?

In this 22-minute panel discussion, Dr Alex Daros (Toronto, Canada), Dr Matt Sommerville (London, UK) and Chloë Morgan explore the links between our emotions and our mental health; specifically how giving young people the skills to manage and control their emotions can help prevent or treat anxiety or depression.

1. 00:36 Introductions
2. 01:05 How can emotional regulation help with youth anxiety and depression?
3. 05:19 What do we mean by emotion controllability beliefs?
4. 11:09 What are the implications for practice?
5. 14:15 How can we teach these emotion skills to young people?
6. 18:52 What was the impact of working with a young people's advisory group?

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Find out more about Wellcome Mental Health:

https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/mental-health

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• Can physical activity prevent or treat youth anxiety or depression?
• How can remote measurement technologies help with youth mental health?

In this half hour panel discussion, Dr Alan Bailey (Melbourne, Australia), Fiyory Ghezae, and Dr Annie Walsh (London/Birmingham) explore the links between physical activity, exercise and good mental health, and consider the future possibilities of wearable technology as a way to monitor our physical activity and physiology and self-manage our mental health.

1. 00:48 Introductions
2. 02:08 What is physical activity?
3. 03:05 Is exercise good for our mental health?
4. 03:51 Can physical activity help to prevent mental illness?
5. 04:58 Can physical activity treat youth depression or anxiety?
6. 06:13 How can we promote physical activity to youth?
7. 11:58 Does physical activity have any adverse effects?
8. 13:28 Do we know why physical activity helps people with depression?
9. 16:54 What are remote measurement technologies?
10. 18:30 What does your work tell us about remote measurement technologies?
11. 23:28 Is mental health research always playing catch up?

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Find out more about Wellcome Mental Health:

https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/mental-health

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• Why is sleep so important for youth mental health?

In this half hour panel discussion, Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (Cambridge, UK), Prof Russell Foster (Oxford, UK) and Prof Ian Hickie (Sydney, Australia) explore the relationship between sleep and youth anxiety and depression. They explain why sleep is so important during adolescence and present some of the ways that young people can learn more about sleep, which can have a positive impact on their health and wellbeing.

1. 00:38 Introductions
2. 01:08 What happens to our brains during puberty?
3. 02:12 Why are adolescents so at risk of mental illness?
4. 04:17 Why is sleep so important for youth mental health?
5. 06:57 This is a tractable problem. Why aren't we doing more about it?
6. 08:14 Why do young people have different sleep patterns?
7. 11:30 For young people, what may improve sleep?
8. 19:14 What are the likely pathways between poor sleep and poor mental health?
9. 23:11 Why is it important to treat everyone as an individual?

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https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/mental-health

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• Can having a sense of purpose in life help with youth mental health?
• How can spiritual and religious beliefs help us to stay mentally healthy?

In this half hour panel discussion, Dr Emily Hielscher (Brisbane, Australia), Prof Christopher Cook (Durham, UK) and Dr Shilpa Aggarwal (Mumbai, India) explore the links between religion, sprituality, sense of purpose and youth mental health.

1. 01:17 Introductions
2. 02:28 How does sense of purpose affect youth mental health?
3. 05:54 What are the key components of sense of purpose interventions?
4. 07:13 How does sense of purpose help youth mental health?
5. 08:43 Do spiritual and religious beliefs affect youth mental health?
6. 13:14 How do spiritual and religious beliefs help youth mental health?
7. 18:30 What are the adverse effects of spirituality and religion?
8. 21:39 Who will deliver these interventions to young people?
9. 23:09 Will interventions work across different countries?

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https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/mental/-health

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Warren Binford is an internationally recognized children’s rights scholar and advocate who is a frequent writer and speaker on a variety of children’s issues, including 21st century forms of child abuse, exploitation, and neglect. She founded the Child and Family Advocacy Law Clinic at Willamette Law School and has provided legal expertise to many international organizations, including Save the Children and the International Red Cross, as well as major media outlets, including the New York Times, the BBC, the New Yorker, and CNN.

Professor Binford was selected as both a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa in 2012 and the inaugural Fulbright Canada-Palix Foundation Distinguished Visiting Chair in Brain Science and Child and Family Health and Wellness at the University of Calgary in 2015. She joined the University of Colorado faculty in 2020 after 15 years as a law school professor and administrator. From 2017-2020, she interviewed children and families at detention centers along the U.S.-Mexican border. She started a GoFundMe to raise money for other volunteers to document the children’s experiences and co-founded Project Amplify to raise public awareness about the mistreatment of children arriving to the U.S. She recently compiled the award-winning children’s book Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz, which describes the experiences of children arriving to the U.S. in their own words.

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Nadha Hassen is a PhD Candidate at York University in Toronto. In this short podcast interview, recorded at the #Together4Action2022 conference in Baltimore, she talks about her "Park Perceptions and Racialized Realities" community-based participatory research (CBPR) dissertation, which explores the experiences of people of color in greenspaces in two underserved neighborhoods in Toronto, Canada, to examine issues of mental health, wellbeing, equity and inclusivity.Adapting the photovoice process, 18 participants went on over 35 greenspace visits and collected over 200 photos. Recommendations and insights on engaging meaningfully, collaboratively, and iteratively through CBPR and adapting to online methods will be shared.

Find out more at: nadhahassen.com

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Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen is the Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. He is a transgender policy, advocacy, and messaging expert. As a transgender man, his wide-ranging experience in the LGBTQ movement has covered field organizing, leadership development, fundraising, and media advocacy. He previously worked with Freedom for All Americans, GLAAD, the Transgender Law Center, Gender Justice LA, and the National LGBTQ Task Force.

In this interview, following his keynote talk at the #Together4Action2022 conference in Baltimore, Rodrigo talks about the health disparities facing the LGBTQ+ community and what health professionals and advocates can do to support people.

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Deborah Klein Walker, EdD, a behavioral sciences researcher, public health leader, and advocate for public health and social justice, has more than 40 years of experience conducting research and evaluation in community settings, and developing and implementing programs. policies and system changes at the local and state levels, She was Vice President and Senior Fellow at Abt Associates for 13 years after spending 16 years at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where she was the Maternal and Child Health Title V Director, Acting Director for Substance Abuse Services, and Associate Commissioner for Programs and Prevention. Prior to state service, she was a faculty member for over a decade at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is currently .

She currently is an Adjunct Professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. She is also the Past President of the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice (formerly, the American Orthopsychiatric Association); a Board Member of Family Voices, the Institute for Community Health and the Cambridge Health Alliance Foundation and on the Editorial Board of the Maternal and Child Health Journal. She is a former president of the American Public Health Association and the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs; a founder of New England SERVE and the Research Consortium on Children with Chronic Conditions; a former Board Member of the Massachusetts Public Health Association and Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies; a former Trustee of the Cambridge Health Alliance and chair of its Cambridge Health Department subcommittee. She is currently on the Governing Council (representing the American Public Health Association) of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.

Dr. Walker is the author of over 100 peer reviewed articles, 3 books and numerous commentaries. She has been honored by organizations representing maternal and child health, disabilities and at-risk populations.

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Ryan Kilmer is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Co-Editor of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, and former President of the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice.

In this podcast, recorded at the Global Alliance Coming Together for Action conference, Prof Kilmer speaks about his work with children and families in deprived settings.

Ryan Kilmer's book (co-authored with James L. Cook) The practice of evaluation: Partnership approaches for community change is available from Sage Publishing

https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-practice-of-evaluation/book254842

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